Punishment & Society
Community Corrections | Corrections/Penology | Criminology & Criminal Justice (General)
Punishment & Society is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control, broadly conceived. The journal's interdisciplinary focus intersects critical scholarship on the penal field with historical and contemporary analyses of race, class, gender, and ethnicity; while its international scope serves to make it relevant to readers and contributors from all parts of the world.
Punishment & Society includes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches, including criminology and penology; sociology of punishment; law & society; penal history; penal theory and philosophy of punishment; postcolonial studies; feminist theory; critical race theory; political economy, border criminologies, and carceral geography.
Each issue includes a lively Book Review section, reviewing the most important new books and publications. It features review essays, symposia and debates as well as shorter reviews, ensuring readers are kept up-to-date on what has been published in this expanding field.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Punishment & Society is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control.
Alessandro De Giorgi | San José State University, USA |
Vanessa Barker | Stockholm University, Sweden |
Zelia Gallo | King’s College London, UK |
Michael Walker | University of Minnesota,USA |
Harry Annison | University of Southampton, UK |
Katherine Beckett | University of Washington, USA |
Malcolm M Feeley | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
Katja Franko Aas | University of Oslo, Norway |
David Garland | New York University, USA |
Marie Gottschalk | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat | University of Toronto, Canada |
Alison Liebling | University of Cambridge, UK |
Professor Mona Lynch | University of California, Irvine, USA |
Shadd Maruna | Queens University Belfast, UK |
Dario Melossi | University of Bologna, Italy |
Ashley Rubin | University of Hawaii, USA |
Joachim Savelsberg | University of Minnesota, USA |
Jonathan Simon | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
Sonja Snacken | Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium |
Maximo Sozzo | National University of Litoral, Argentina |
Richard Sparks | University of Edinburgh, UK |
Dirk van Zyl Smit | University of Nottingham, UK |
Ericka Adams | San Jose State University |
Ana Aliverti | University of Warwick |
Lynsey Black | Maynooth University, Ireland |
Mary Francesca Bosworth | University of Oxford, UK |
Anthony Bottoms | University of Cambridge, UK |
Louise Brangan | University of Strathclyde, UK |
Michelle Brown | University of Tennessee, USA |
Leonidas K. Cheliotis | London School of Economics, UK |
Jennifer E. Cobbina | Michigan State University, USA |
Megan Comfort | RTI International |
Ben Crewe | University of Cambridge, UK |
John Eason | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Anna Eriksson | Monash University |
Benjamin D Fleury-Steiner | University of Delaware, USA |
Jerry Flores | University of Toronto |
David Fonseca | Universidad Federal Soul Bahia |
Arie Freiberg | Monash University, Australia |
Zelia Gallo | King’s College London, UK |
Loraine Gelsthorpe | University of Cambridge, UK |
Phil Goodman | University of Toronto, Canada |
David Greenberg | New York University, USA |
Susila Gurusami | University of Illinois-Chicago |
Yvonne Jewkes | University of Bath, UK |
Jize Jiang | Tongji University, China |
David T. Johnson | University of Hawaii, USA |
Aaron C. Kupchik | University of Delaware, USA |
Nicola Lacey | London School of Economics, UK |
Karen Laidler | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Elena Larrauri Pijoan | Pompeu Fabra University, Spain |
Amy Lerman | University of California, Berkeley |
Jill A. McCorkel | Villanova University, USA |
Fergus McNeil | University of Glasgow, UK |
Reuben Jonathan Miller | University of Michigan, USA |
Naomi Murakawa | Princeton University |
David Nelken | University of Macerata, Italy |
Joshua Page | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA |
Michelle Phelps | University of Minnesota, USA |
Laura Piacentini | University of Strathclyde, UK |
John Pratt | University of Wellington, New Zealand |
Keramet Reiter | University of California, USA |
Heather Schoenfeld | Northwestern University, USA |
Joe Sim | Liverpool John Moore's University, UK |
Gail Super | University of Toronto |
Thomas Ugelvik | University of Oslo, Norway |
René Van Swaaningen | Erasmus University, Netherlands |
Anjuli Verma | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Lucia Zedner | University of Oxford, UK |
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